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...Serge Voronoff, gland specialist: "Last week I prophesied in Paris 'Monkeys will talk and men will live to be 125 years old.' I went on to relate that I have grafted glands on 1,000 human beings. I have grafted glands on sheep so successfully that their wool yield has been largely increased, 16 pounds added to their weight and their lives prolonged six years. Now I have a monkey farm at Mentone on the French Riviera where I am raising monkeys to supply the tremendous number of monkey-glands that the world will soon demand...
...Government profit. The company, with 60 subsidiaries, has lost money, forcing stockholders to endure three refinancings; and now they were asked to approve a fourth-to reduce the values of their shares from ?4,000,000 to ?2,374,954. Grief over stockholders' losses and suspicion of financial monkey-business caused shareholder Norden's outburst...
...Dayton, Tenn. (Scene of the famed monkey trial...
...tarantula. He could span the animal's neck with his thumb and forefinger, though it stood 30 inches high and weighed 20 pounds. The hind paws were sharply clawed, for climbing and scratching. A sharp-pointed face peered out from a fringe of mustache, like a monkey's. The nose was hard, smooth, rubbery. With its sharp white teeth, the creature tore only vegetables, no flesh. What, asked Mr. Miller of scientists, is it? Pending further particulars, scientists would...
Anti-evolutionism received two other set-backs during the week. The lower half of the Arkansas legislature passed s bill prohibiting evolution-teaching in the schools. Citizens thronged the senate galleries for a "monkey show." But the senate tabled the bill without even discussing...